Hi I have had the server running for about 5 months without any problems. A couple of days ago I noticed in Thunderbird email client that my one email box kept receiving the same email at random times. It always has the same time stame etc. I then noticed that I was receiving no other emails apart from the same one over and over. I went into the web mail and saw that instead of being empty all my emails were collecting there. I have figured out that each time a new mail arrives I can see it in the web mail client but in thunderbird I just get a copy of a 3 day old email instead. I have updated ISPconfig to the latest version. I have reset the server but it has not fixed this problem. Any suggestions as to where I should look to resolve this problem? Thanks
When you see it correctly in webmail (which is a normal IMAP mail client), then the problem is probably in Thunderbird and not your server.
Hi That might be so... It is just strange because I have made no changes to Thunderbird or the server. But I did look in the server mail log and I do see that mail in many records as it is sent to the client.
Mail servers don't sent mail to the mail client, instead, the mail client connects to the server and pulls the email from the server. Please post the lines that you see in the mail.log for this email.
I am sorry it appears if I was wrong about what I said regarding the log. I understand that the client request the mails. Thunderbird is currently configured for pop. Is there a log which keeps a record of the request that the client makes?
Okay I have fixed it. Your suggestion about it being Thunderbird lead me to search on their forum and found that the popstate.dat file was corrupt. Here is the link if anyone else has this problem. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Repeatably_downloading_the_same_messages Thanks for your help
mmm seems like I spoke too quickly. It downloaded all the emails that were on the server until that time and then stopped and started doing the same again. I deleted the mail which it keeps sending down and that has fixed the problem. Kind of strange because the mail I deleted did download and apeared to be normal.
